His shadow was cast on the bed, however, so he next got down on his knees and crawled softly into the closet.

With the peat in his hands, he returned in the same way, glancing every moment at the bed where Mysy lay.

Though Tammy Gow's face was pressed against a broken window he did not hear Cree putting that peat on the fire.

Some say that Mysy heard, but pretended not to do so for her son's sake, that she realized the deception he played on her, and had not the heart to undeceive him.

But it would be too sad to believe that.